Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Personally, I've chosen to steer away from EnergyPro v6.5. CBECC-Com as it stands is a rather buggy tool and not all that user friendly with it's error logging, but it is getting better. EnergyPro's implementation of the CBECC-Com API is also rather buggy adding another layer of complexity for the user to try and debug. While CBECC-Com error messages appear in the log file (available with any third party CBECC-Com vendor) the errors encountered that are internal to the EnergyPro implementation of the CBECC-com engine are not accessible making debugging a real nightmare at times. Moreover, there is a time lag between when newer versions of CBECC-Com are released with added functionality/bug fixes and when third party vendors are able to release a stable version with the updated engine so it is limited in this sense too.
My suggestion is to become comfortable with manipulating the SDDXML file that CBECC-Com uses as an input. That said, you're still limited to the available HVAC systems in CBECC-Com and I imagine exceptional compliance will be a necessary pathway fairly frequently - it is for me.
